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A20238	The apologie, or defence of a verity heretofore published concerning a medicine called aurum potabile that is, the pure substance of gold, prepared, and made potable and medicinable without corrosiues, helpfully giuen for the health of man in most diseases, but especially auaileable for the strenghning [sic] and comforting of the heart and vitall spirits the perfomers of health: as an vniversall medicine. Together with the plaine, and true reasons ... confirming the vniversalitie thereof. And lastly, the manner and order of administration or vse of this medicine in sundrie infirmities. By Francis Anthonie of London, doctor in physicke.	Anthony, Francis, 1550-1623.	1616 (1616)	STC 666; ESTC S100187	65,635	136

Art prepared Her passions still continued if not encreased Continuall vomiting and reiection of whatsoeuer she tooke meate drink medicines with swoundings torture torments of euery part of her body A miserable and pitifull spectacle much lamented of many very honourable persons Shee could not rest nor sleepe night nor day So that sinking vnder the burden of this affliction with the violence and continuance thereof her strength vtterly failed Shee could not retaine so much as one drop of any broth or other nourishment Her Stomacke by coniecture of all Physitions was drawen together and shut vp without any power or faculty to performe the offices of nature In this miserable estate this distressed gentlewoman languished two whole monthes without any ease or releefe by the vse of any the Medicines giuen her by the aduise of the said Physitions all things tending to a more desperate and Immedicable estate Whereupon the mother of this gentlewoman demanded of these said Doctors whether they had any hope to giue helpe or at least wise ease to her daughter else she said she would send for Doctor Anthony Those Doctors hereupon limited themselues to a certaine time which they spent in their vttermost habilities to perform to the intēt I shold not be called To which purpose they commanded an Apothecary to attend in the Chamber of the patient all the next day and night and euery third houre to giue her a Cordiall Then voluntarily they said to the mother Send for Doct. Anthony if you will and God send him good successe with your daughter Then was I sent for and finding this gentlewoman in so desperate a case left and giuen ouer by all the Doctors of the Colledge as not to be recouered for besides the aduise of these Six there had beene publike consultations in the Colledge as is requisite in such like cases which sildome come in vse I desired God to blesse my endeauours and to continue his blessings in the administration of this my happy medicine After a small time vpon due and mature consideration of all things I gaue her at the first not a whole spoonfull of my Aurum potabile as in other cases but much lesse scarce a quarter so much which she cast vp againe with a vehement force and torture of her body A little while after I gaue her as much more which she cast vp in the same manner as she did the first Againe I gaue it the third time some part of which shee also cast vp but kept some with a kind of strife or conflict betweene the medicine and the maladie Then I aduised that she should not further be troubled for a season but to try if shee could now take a little rest or sleepe So she disposed her selfe thereunto and slept soundly a whole houre which diuers of great account then present can witnesse For she snored that we all heard Which seemed strange to all considering for a long time before shee had taken no rest When she waked she said that she found her selfe somewhat better at ease Then which was the fourth time I gaue her halfe a spoonful which she kept without any contending or trouble to her body This gaue me and many worthy gentlewomen there present great hope of a good recouerie Wherein God be praised we were not deceiued For in all the other administring of this Medicine orderly as she was able to beare increasing the quantitie her spirits were releeued she daily recouered strength all the passions symptomes and accidents of her diseases ceased her sicknesse fully left her and she recouered perfect health Thus with the vse of this happy Medicine this gentlewoman was recouered and cured of that dangerous disease wherein those other Doctors had wearied themselues and forsaken her at which her friends wondred mine reioyced and other malicious aduersaries fretted for which God be praised If they will call these the effects of Iugling and of a corrosiue Medicine they will hardly finde any Cordiall amongst all their Dispensatories and Magistrall prescriptions The cause and effect are Essentiall Relatiues THe Lady and wife of Sir Francis Leake Knight Continuall vomiting and destillation of Reume continuing many moneths being now conceiued of her first childe was fallen into many infirmities Shee had a continuall and abundant slux at her mouth caused by collection of phlegmaticke and pituitous humors Also a continuall vomiting and casting euer after any food taken Her flux ceased not neither day nor night She was brought to that weaknes leannesse in her body that al her friends thought she was in a consumption During the time of this sicknes which was fiue moneths she vsed many medicines in hope of remedy but found none And therefore iustly feared eyther miscarying her trauell or the losse of her owne life Whereupon by the perswasion of some friends which knew right well the efficacie of my Potable gold she tooke therof the third month before the time of her deliuery and at seuerall times continued the vse of it By which meanes her vomiting flux of spitting ceased she recouered strength and good habit and all the rest of the time of her childe bearing continued in very good health and disposition And in due time was deliuered of a faire and strong Sonne which is yet liuing THe Lady and wife of Sir Edward Barret knight Perill in childbirth and sister to the forenamed Lady being in trauell of childbirth in such hazard and extremities of hard labour that both her Midwiues all other there present despaired both of safety and life of mother and child by counsell of a great Ladie then in my chamber tooke of my Potable gold and beyond the expectation of them all was presently deliuered of a child in good liking But the after burden stayed which in that weakenesse made them feare the like danger Therefore they gaue her the same Medicine againe by which the after burden followed she recouered and did well THis Medicine hath likewise bin happy and succesfull to very many others Weomen in like cases euen after the childe hath beene dead in their bodies and they giuen ouer in their last extremities So that it is scarse possible to finde any Medicine to match this in such cases whereof I will set downe a few examples THe wife of Ioseph Pemberton Haberdasher of Ipswich Childbirth in the Countie of Suffolke was deliuered by meanes of this Potable gold being in great extremitie and danger by reason of her hard labour THe wife of Master Oratio Paluasino was recouered Childbirth by the same Medicine beeing in great danger through hard labour in childe-birth IN like manner was the wife of Thomas Blackeborne Childbirth Citizen of London when she had beene two daies in labour safely deliuered by this helpe THe wife of Nicholas Colman in Great Saint Bartholmewes Childbirth was euen at the point of Death and vpon the taking of this Aurum Potabile was presently deliuered and her life

preserued MAster Foxton in Red Crosse streete had his wife Dead birth in the like case and in greater danger by reason of the childe in her body being dead THe like Foetus mortuus or dead birth the wife of Dead birth Master Castle of Hatfield Peuerell in Essex had carried in her body three daies neither could she be deliuered by any helpe vntill shee tooke the Aurum Potabile THe wife of Master Harde dwelling vpon Saint Peters Hill in London was deliuered of a dead Dead birth childe yet neuerthelesse she was still full of intollerable paines Whereupon the wife of M. Fitzgarret Esquire neere dwelling gaue vnto her of my Aurum Potabile the next day after her deliuery of that childe at 9. of the clocke in the morning And the same day at 2. of the clocke in the after noone shee was deliuered of an other dead childe and then presently recouered THe wife of Mast Iohn Bingle of the Exchequer was Perill of Childbirth in her trauell in great peril of death vnto whom a graue gentlewoman there present at her labour gaue of my Aurum Potabile with which helpe both shee and the childe were saued THe Lady and wife of Sir Iohn Pretiman knight Burning feuer in Childbirth being in childe-bed fell into a burning feuer also she could take no rest nor sleepe And other very violent passions she endured She was not willing to take any manner of Medicine Only Aurum Potabile shee tooke and was quickly restored to health THe wife of Mast Edmund Kingstone of Glocester Burning feuer and bloody flux in Child-bed shire being in childe-bed had a burning feuer and with it a bloody flux She was throughly cured by the same meanes which the Lady Pretiman vsed AN other gentlewoman of the same Countie Feuer and scouring in Childbed the wife of Christopher Blackewell was by the same meanes cured of a feuer with an excessiue scouring lying in childbed THe wife of Master Iohn Sherington of London Preseruation of Aborte Marchant being with childe had many passions and euident causes to make her feare abortion or miscarrying Beeing therefore aduised thereunto she tooke of my Aurum Potabile daily a proportionable quantitie and went out her full time receiued Gods blessing in the safe deliuery of a faire childe Whereby it appeareth that this Medicine hath diuers vertues and faculties As in case both to promote the birth where it is stayed be the birth aliue or dead as also to stay and preuent abortion of miscarrying vnto the full time and periode of the naturall birth which in the power of the Medicine is but one That is the onely comforting strenghtning and enabling of nature to promote and performe her owne actions which way soeuer is most fit for the safety health of the body as in other cases before hath beene obserued And not only profitable to each mother in all those former causes but to the infant also as shall appeare by one Relation which here followeth THe wife of Master Richard Browne Esquire Perill in Childbirth dwelling in the Blacke fryers was long in labour of childbirth and in great danger notwithstanding she had two midwiues with her A certaine gentlewoman and neighbour being then present perswaded to send for some of my Aurum Potabile and to giue it her One Midwife said she had better meanes to giue her But when all meanes fayled and small hope of life remained then was my Aurum Potabile sent for And after it was twice administred vnto her she was safe deliuered of a liuing and well liking childe God be praised The next day following The new borne Infant in danger the same gentlewoman and neighbour came to visite the mother and childe finding the childe in the Midwiues lap not well but languishing and ill The Midwife desired of this gentlewoman some of the Aurum Potabile for to giue the childe It was then asked whether she who had denied it vnto the mother the former day would now giue it vnto so yong an infant The Midwife answered that hauing seene the admirable effect thereof the day before she doubted not of successe in the childe She gaue it therefore vnto the childe mixed with breastmilke and the childe presently amended If therefore such yong infants which skantly haue seene the light of the Sun and haue brought from the mothers wombe their infirmities and not taken them by misdiet or misorder doe finde releefe by this Medicine as also women in their conception and in time of their deliuerie and afterwards lying in childbed as is euidently set downe in particularitie Euen in this only case it meriteth that account that no Lady or gentlewoman of accompt should at any time bee vnfurnished thereof for the benefit of themselues and their infants in case of necessitie seeing that no Medicine is more powerfull more secure more pleasing to take SIr Lewis Lewknar knight in the yeare of our Lord 1611 fell dangerously sicke with a cōtinuall burnīg The Plague or Pestilence feuer vehement passions He sent for two famous Physitions of the Citie of London which followed and plyed him sixe daies with al the conducible remedies they could deuise but without any successe For they neither eased his passions nor abated the burning heate and furie of the feuer So that the patiēt euery day waxed worse worse at the last an Aposteme appeared in his groyne a true token in such a disease of a pestilent and contagious infection which at that time though not since was very hot in London Thereupon these Doctors excused themselues in that they were tied to the attendance of diuerse noble persons whom they were loth to infect And therefore were compelled to bid him farewell And accordingly left this worthy gentleman to wrestle with this disease for the cure of which they were waged and by conscience thereunto tyed and his trust in them was reposed They hauing thus taken their leaues I was sent for not knowing the disease which could not long hide it selfe hauing such manifest tokens Yet I thought it against both charity and honestie now being with him to forsake him And therefore resolued by the grace of God with some powerfull and strong Antidote to expell the poyson from his heart and afterwards to proceede for his further recouery as occasion should be ministred To which purpose I first gaue him sixe graines of my Essence of gold mixed appropriatly After which in a small time he began to sweate which continued all that night and a great part of the next day The next night and so euery day for 4. daies more I gaue againe the same Medicine in the same quantity which caused abundant sweating whereby both the malignitie of the feuer and the vnnaturall heate was exceedingly abated the Aposteme which was risen very great did daily decrease and at last quite vanished only with a certaine sticticke plaster outwardly applied Thus he was cured

vnwillingly and almost compulsiuely brought thither by the neerest of blood to the sick gentleman with no lesse intreaty then others But these Physitians were so far from conferring with me cōcerning the further health of this patient whom they then found in very good case that they both ioyned and would not bee quiet before they had rid me thence contrary to the will of the patient and of those that were present In what case and state I both found and left this gentleman you haue hard After my departure what cooling or astringent or otherwise qualified Syrupes or Electuaries or other forme of medicine they gaue him all that day I know not But this I know that the next night he relapsed into the same cruell and desperate accidents in which I formerly had found him and from which I had restored him peraduenture he fell into this relaps for want of that my medicine so powrefull in strengthning the heart and expelling poyson from it For doubtlesse the exitures being stopped and the poyson returning from the outward parts of the body whither nature had expelled it to the heart the same accidents must needes returne Such relapses are most dangerous because both the infection is stronger and the body weaker And so it appeared in this noble gentleman by this his vntimely death Then did these Physitions vnder whose hands he died bethinke themselues of some stratageme to avoid the imputation imminent One of them therefore hastneth to the Court where he publisheth excuse of himselfe and accusation of me And further causeth me to bee cited to the Colledge of London Physitions and with the eloquence of Tertullus very stoutly accuseth me as culpable of the death of this gentleman Where I acquited my selfe and maintained my innocency by foure lawfull witnesses seruants and attendants of their late Master the deceased knight Who with one consent and contestation dilated That I came to their said Master lying in his last and extreame pangs rauing after the exitures of the small pocks were striken in That after I had with carefull and diligent attendance all that night administred my potable Gold vnto him as aforesaid the extremities of his passions and grieuousnesse of accidents were much eased and abated he more quiet and in better sense and that the Pustules of his diseafe did againe plentifully breake out by which meanes he was respectiuely in good temper And that the next day when the said Physitions had excluded me and giuen him their mixtures all things turned to their old course he to his former extremities and so died His Maiestie also had commanded 4. honourable persons to be present at the Colledge in the hearing and debating of these actions now in question that is the right honourable the Lord Kneuet Sir Henry and Sir Philip Cary knights brethren of Sir Adolph deceased and Sir William Godolphin knight who finding it fully proued how I found him in the agony of death how I left him in good temper how the other Doctors receiued him in very good case for that disease how they left him dead truly reported the whole matter to the Kings Maiestie as indeede it was What his Maiesties censure then was herein and on whom he would lay this imputation of his death may easily be coniectured out of the manifestations of the cause Also those two worthy brethren meere strangers to me at that time liuing in honourable account and place so generously and vertuously that none dare entertaine any sinister thought against their sinceritie nor opinion that they will for any respect whatsoeuer be induced to report any vntruth for me nor any other are alwaies ready to giue further satisfaction if any as yet be not sufficiently perswaded of these proceedings Reason it selfe in one maine ground of Physicall indications doth teach vs that à iuvantibus et nocentibus from such things as helpe and such things as hurt a most inuincible argument is drawne and concluded Is it not a generall rule with all Physitions to continue the vse of those things which haue manifestly releeued and profited the patient if there be no necessarie exception and to fly and for beare the vse of those which haue hurt or done no good Nature teacheth brute beasts to seeke shadowed and coole places in the heat of sommer because their sense findes ease and refreshing by the shaddow and hurt and annoyance by the parching sunne Apparant it is that my Potable gold did euen miraculously refresh helpe profite and comfort this diseased gentleman of whom this question first grew For his vnderstanding was thereby recouered quietnesse rest and sleepe procured naturall and healthfull sweating caused and the poyson of his disease driuen from the center and heart whereby the pustules and exitures did againe appeare and come forth All arguments and signes of good estate and temper in that disease did appeare as portending a perfect recouerie On the other side whatsoeuer the Medicines administred by these two other Doctors were before or after my comming I know not But most certaine it is that whatsoeuer they gaue or howsoeuer they handled the matter much hurt succeeded euen the greatest mischiefe that may happen to a languishing patient For all the concourse of his former grieuous direfull and mortall symptomaticall accidents returnes with double strength when his heart and vital spirits were not able to resist The striking in againe of the exitures rauing wrestling and which only remained to conclude the tragedie Death it selfe the last of all lines that man can draw and a true line to draw and direct vnderstanding men to the true cause of his death These circumstances compulsarily wrung from me be sufficient for the euidence of this verity to all men that will not maliciously spurne against apparant truth But my traducers doe still spiderlike sucke poyson in stead of hony and force themselues to an vnnaturall vomit of these humors against this medicine truly of gold and truly potable In which bitternesse if they did not still persist against their owne science conscience regard of vertue and veritie wounding many honest hearts with false suggestions against my good name and the innocuous worthinesse of this Medicine and defrauding many poore languishing soules of the vse and benefite thereof I would and surely gladly would for their sakes haue forborne the narration and report of this true storie Which I am by them compelled to publish for my Apologie MIstres Cicely Boulstred a worthie gentlewoman Extreme vomiting and virgine attending in neere seruice our gracious Queene in good fauour and account fell sicke and had greiuous passions Vnto whome diuers of the most famous Physitions of the Colledge were called Who with great care and their vtmost skill sparing no cost as was fitting in such a place administred all kinds of conducing Medicines both Cordials and other respectiuely to the cause of her disease and passions both such as be ready in the shoppes as others by some singularitie of

reproch for my good deeds and slander for a recompence But the wrong done to others hath many branches and searcheth to the seate of greatest honour For though I dare not say that it should haue beene otherwise by the administring hereof the length and number of all daies being in Gods hand yet to shew their warme charitie against all things not in their owne Apothekes they would not suffer our late yong Prince worthy of immortall memorie to vse this so famously and aboue all exceptions approued medicine notwithstanding in the vse of all other they found not so much as any hope In a desperate case and a prognosticated life all rules both of learning and charitie allow yea and require the attempt of any meanes not noted of ill suspicion Much more so publikely and manifoldly testified for the admirable good effects which it had wrought in diuers persons But that Rubricke Propter dignitatem personae c. Giue ordinary medicines to great persós to preserue the honour of the Physition that he hath done no hurt scilicet though he did no good is neither Prophylacticke nor Therapeuticke We say in English As good neuer a whit as neuer the better And such is their pious affection towards all others whom it may concerne that whatsoeuer happen none of them will make vse of this my potable gold which though not properly yet emphatically may be called a diuine Medicine and certainly with more merit then their Gratia Dei Manus Christi Benedicta Medicamenta Diuinum Medicamentum though it would saue a thousand liues Esteeming as it seemeth that good which is so done without the Seplasiasticke preparations to be their dishonor and delinement Let all be soberly vsed but where greatest need is the best and most powerfull chosen But the searcher and iudge of all hearts will recompence according to merit to them as to enemies of truth And to the sincere louers thereof acknowledging Gods mercies shewed in the administration of his owne guifts their guerdon which is the testimony of a good conscience If we looke backe vnto the actions of certaine Physitions of old time euen before the age of Galen and the admirable medicines of some of them we shall find not impertinent to our purpose that of great Alexander King of Macedon He as Quintus Curtius in his third booke reporteth in the extremitie of a most dangerous and violent disease desiring either present helpe or death that he might hold his appointed day of battell with Darius King of Persia for that purpose consulted with his friends and counsellors what remedy might be found in this desperate case The King disliked al ordinary medicines as too weake for his purpose The Physitions would allow none such as they called vnknowne One Physition among the rest named Philip being borne in the country Acarnania a part of Greece offered Alexander to make him a medicine very safe to be taken which should speedily restore him to health though the other Physitions knew not what it was Parmenio a great Counsellour and fauorite of Alexanders disswaded his King from this medicine for he was vnwilling the King should recouer as the sequell shewed and laboured to perswade him that this Philip the Physition was hired by Darius for 1000. talents to poyson him Yet Alexander tooke that Physicke and finding the effect answerable to his promise after his health so suddenly and beyond expectation recouered did afterwards among other accusations lay this for one against Parmenio as not wishing him well which altogether made vp that Iudgment which brought him to his end And very honorablie both rewarded and regarded Philip to whom next vnder God be attributed and acknowledged the preseruation of his life The working of that medicine in the same place is described not vnlike to this of mine In this manner Vt vero Medicamentum c. So soone as the Medicine diffused or spred it selfe into the veines there might leisurely by little and little recouery and healthfulnesse be perceiued in all the body First the spirits and heart recouered their vigor and after the body also sooner then could be beleeued For Alexander after he had beene in this case three daies shewed himselfe to his Armie which did not more ardently or affectionatly fixe their eyes vpon Alexander then vpon Philip who had so vnexpectedly restored him to them Euery one striuing who should first giue him their right hand embrace and thanke him Thus much Curtius Semblably it is sufficiently prooued and famously manifest that very many great Noble and Honourable personages both men and women sicke either as Alexander was or taken with other more dangerous and violent diseases forsaken by all other Physitions as vncurable haue beene by the vse of this Medicine through Gods grace in very short time recouered and restored to their perfect health Therefore vnto you worthy and Honourable gentlemen who as you are the Inheritors of Nobilitie so are you of gentle and noble dispositions to you I say I turne my selfe resting assured that you esteeme these calumniating bablers to haue said nothing reall materiall and veritable against me howsoeuer they haue mooued their tongues and quills They intend not in this case your health but my dammage and would rather you were offered a silent sacrifice in eternall sleepe then strike one saile or vnlace one bonet blowen with the winde of their malicious breath or leese the price of a popular Recipe for a Benedict Medicament although it doe no good shall doe no harme Propter honestatem Medici that is for the reputation of the Doctor though euery day almost doe giue miserable experience that by want of doing good the mischiefe increaseth and so with the reputation of the Doctor the poore patient is lodged in his grauesend which is harme enough and the worst of a maledict Medicine Therefore as I desire so I iustly hope that you will discerne betweene a blacke and a white falshood and truth light and darknesse That you will patronise defend and keepe from oppression both me and the truth If there be any doubt concerning the auouchment of the cures and good effects of this my potable gold here spoken of you haue the reports the particular names and places and many of their owne hand writings I keepe ready at all times to be shewed for your further contentments And I am verily perswaded that all honest persons which haue beene recouered from their diseases and infirmities by the good vse of this my potable gold will be so thankfull to God for that benefit as to acknowledge the meanes of their recouery and not imitate those silent 9. Pharises clensed from their Leprosie by our Sauiour which is little lesse if not equiualent then against their owne knowledge and conscience to deny Of them you may know and be satisfied that it hath done good to all hurt to none That it is a safe powerfull and pleasing Medicine euen a Prince amongst all analogising with principalitie in